The PRECEDE model was developed for health educators in an effort to improve programs and to influence health behaviors. The model consists of several diagnostic phases: (1) epidemiological; (2) social; (3) behavioral; (4) educational; (5) administrative; and (6) evaluation. (JN)

Methods of studying the gap between predisposition and actual behavior of consumers of spectator sports is discussed. A model is drawn from the areas of behavioral sciences, consumer behavior, and leisure research. The model is constructed around the premise that choice is primarily a function of personal, product, and environmental factors. (JN)

The domain of health is defined by a comprehensive model which identifies three basic elements of individual health: the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. This model can provide insight for improving the quality of life for health educators and their students. (JN)

America's era of expansion is over. The limitless frontier which served as a safety valve for our social tensions is gone and we now must find new national goals. To do this we need a new kind of thinking, not abstract intellectualization but commitment to human service. (SJL)

Discusses, with quotations from various writings, the basic human needs of individuals and survival needs of the larger society, leading to the knowledge considered most worth having, and ending with delineation of that knowledge most worth having within the purview of home economics and implications for home economics teachers. (MF)

Teachers need a liberal arts background to understand what they are teaching and why they are teaching it. (Author/JD)

This study identifies attitudes about housing in general and residential exterior. A discrete multivariate analysis method is used to show relationships between satisfactions, values, and socioeconomic factors from a sample of families in metropolitan and non-metropolitan communities. (Author/SK)

The author examines three studies, two new and one a reissued classic, that consider the question: Do secondary school learnings make any ultimate difference in shaping students' lives or society's values? (Editor)

The mythicizing of significant figures, evidenced in reminiscence among the elderly, can be interpreted as an adaptational response that is different from making sense out of one's life. Later in life the past becomes unique, and in the myth becoming the reality, one's life becomes justified. (Author)

Results of in-depth interviews with 32 elderly Mexican Americans revealed minimal potential hazardous drug interactions. Mexican Americans showed a disinclination to utilize over-the-counter drugs to alleviate minor ailments. Professionals involved in health care delivery systems for the aging should become aware of the special needs of ethnic…

Both healthy and ill females who had not wanted to retire did not adjust over time to the retirement state. A significant portion of ill female interviewees were able to surmount the effects of bodily disease and adjust to the requirements of role transaction in an adaptive manner. (Author)

Discusses the need to emphasize the "life-significance" concept in preretirement education and describes various types of programs. Presents results of a survey of retired male managers, indicating how this group dealt with their retirement. Cites various studies and recommends better planning of preretirement programs. (MF)

Lyle Olsen, a scholar-athlete and a prize rookie in the Dodger chain while he was in college, is now a professor-coach. He believes that the guideline "winning is the only thing" is a treacherous one. Olsen inspires his students to make their lives richer through physical education. (Author/MLW)

Using interview data collected from 595 subjects in five Utah counties, this study identified through factor analysis two dimensions of community satisfaction (economic and interpersonal). Results showed rural people tended to have highest levels of interpersonal satisfaction while urban people were more economically satisfied. (DS)

Answers criticisms of "On What Basis Hope? Modern Progress and Postmodern Possibility" (Danforth), which used a postmodernist perspective to discuss the history and utilization of modern social science and the myth of scientific progress. The "validation trap" of scientific research and its limiting effect on innovation is discussed. (CR)